English in Your Face

Interview with Yesica Miranda, Neurologist

Today we’re going to do something a little bit different. Instead of doing grammar, we're going to have an interview with one of my students, Yesica Miranda. Yesica has been taking classes from me for about year. I thought it might be interesting to speak to students to get their perspective on learning English. Head on over to englishinyourface.blog for a transcript of this podcast.

The Ugly Truth About Phrasal Verbs

In this podcast I'm going to talk about: > * Difficulties that ESL students have when listening to native speakers. > * The Anatomy of a Phrasal Verb > * A Bit of Phrasal Verb History > * The two main types of phrasal verbs, two-word and three-word phrasal verbs > * What kinds of phrasal verbs take objects, and which don't > * Where to put the object if it has one. After? Between? Visit englishinyourface.blog for a transcript of this podcast.

How to Write A Friendly Letter

One of the test questions on the Cambridge tests is writing a friendly letter. Here is the way to write it!

Using Causatives

Head on over to englishinyourface.blog for a transcript of this podcast. Also see my presentation on causatives Let me give you a road map of what we are going to talk about today. * First we will define what a causative is * How it differs from other languages * The terminology we’ll use to describe each element of a causative sentence, namely the subject, main verb, the agent, the causative verb, and the object. * There are three causatives, and today I will talk about: * The different sentence constructions of causatives. * How the main verbs and the causative verbs changes for each structure.

News!

What has been happening lately. News about a new blog which will include the podcasts. You can now see The episodes of my podcast along with transcripts at petermangiaracina.com/Podcast